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Decolonising against a backdrop of colonial amnesia: barriers, challenges, and finding a way forward [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Sociology
This paper, originally delivered as a keynote at De Montfort University, interrogates the persistence of colonial amnesia within educational, institutional, and cultural contexts in the UK.
Javeria Khadija Shah
doaj   +2 more sources

Avatars of Eurocentrism in the critique of the liberal peace [PDF]

open access: yesSecurity Dialogue, 2013
Recent scholarly critiques of the so-called liberal peace raise important political and ethical challenges to practices of postwar intervention in the global South.
Meera Sabaratnam
exaly   +4 more sources

Changing Gender Relations in Canada: The Rise of Gender-Neutral Forenames. [PDF]

open access: yesCan Rev Sociol
ABSTRACT Historically, gender‐neutral or androgynous first names have been relatively rare, showing little sign of upward or downward temporal trend in Canada or elsewhere. Using digitized birth registration records from three provinces (Alberta, British Columbia, and Ontario) and for all of Canada, we highlight a rise, beginning around 1990, in the ...
Guppy N, Kolpashnikova K.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Eurocentrism in Samuel P. Huntington’s Concept of the Clash of Civilisations

open access: yesPolish Political Science Yearbook, 2022
The article is dedicated to an issue of Eurocentrism in American political scientist Samuel P. Huntington’s concept of the clash of civilisations. The arguments presented indicate that Huntington’s concept is pure Eurocentric. I start by mentioning a few
Mateusz Kufliński
doaj   +1 more source

Euro-Centrism vs. International Thinking

open access: yesPolitikon, 2006
If European people are asked to answer the question, “Which of your different identities has the highest rank in your personal sense: the local, the national or the European?”, a high percentage rate would definitely still report to the two former and ...
Stefan Fersterer
doaj   +5 more sources

Eurocentrism

open access: yes, 2023
The term Anthropocene was criticized for its tendency to simplify space and time, through over-universalizing language. Climate change narratives are overwhelmingly white, Eurocentric and masculine. The wealthy minority of the world’s population is responsible for the effects of the Anthropocene, while the consequences fall disproportionately on the ...
Braidotti, Rosi, Casper-Hehne, Hiltraud
openaire   +4 more sources

Uncovering the Experiences of Engaging Indigenous Knowledges in Colonial Structures of Schooling and Research

open access: yesEngaged Scholar Journal, 2021
In response to the Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action (TRC, 2015), a school board teamed with university educators and educational partners to generate a professional learning series to support educators’ engagement with Indigenous knowledges.
Mairi McDermott   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Alternative discourses in Southeast Asia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
This article brings into focus the question of alternative discourses in the social sciences. Alternative discourses are works that attempt to debunk ideas that have become entrenched in the social sciences, partly as a result of colonialism and the ...
Syed Farid Alatas,
core   +1 more source

Criticizing Eurocentrism: Limitations and Alternatives

open access: yesİnsan & Toplum, 2013
Eurocentrism is a grand narrative changing with time and transforming under different contexts. Many critics of this grand narrative have not yet managed to go beyond what they have criti- cized.
Kerem Karaosmanoğlu   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Historical sociology, international relations and connected histories [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This article addresses three recent developments in historical sociology: (1) neo-Weberian historical sociology within International Relations; (2) the 'civilizational analysis' approach utilized by scholars of 'multiple modernities'; and (3) the 'third ...
Bhambra, Gurminder K.
core   +1 more source

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